Support the Flora of the Southeastern US
2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
- Keys with embedded images of diagnostic features
- Clickable glossary terms with illustrated definitions
- FloraQuest: Carolinas & Georgia mobile app
- Heliophily and Wetland Statuses
- Direct links to Flora of North America
- 17,730 new high quality diagnostic photos and counting
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
- Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
- Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
- 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
- Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
- iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:
| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apiaceae | Spermolepis diffusa | Sandy clay, sand, roadsides, fencerows, fields, pastures, dunes and sandy hills, thin soil under oak-juniper, sandy soil in longleaf pine, pine, oak-pine, oak-hickory, post oak, and post oak-blackjack oak woods, lake shores. | Se. MO, n. AR, and KS south to s. LA and sc. TX. | ||
| Apiaceae | Spermolepis divaricata | Southern Spermolepis, Roughfruit Spermolepis | Sandy roadsides, disturbed areas. | VA south to s. FL, west to e. TX and COA. Endemic to our region, though weedy in behavior, and perhaps introduced only in VA. |  |
| Apiaceae | Spermolepis echinata | Bristlefruit Spermolepis, Hooked Spermolepis | Sandy prairies, sandy roadsides and disturbed areas. | IL and s. KS south to Mexico (BCN, COA, SON, TAM); more eastern parts of the distribution are of uncertain nativity. |  |
| Apiaceae | Spermolepis inermis | Western Spermolepis | Sandy prairies and open woodlands, limestone glades and barrens, calcareous prairies in the Mountains (GA), disturbed areas in the Coastal Plain (NC). | IN, IL, IA, MN, and NE south to w. LA, TX, se. NM, and COA; disjunct eastwards in TN G, AL, MS, and e. LA as a native, and also a rare waif (as in e. NC). |  |
| Apiaceae | Spermolepis laevis | Smooth Spermolepis | Granite outcrops, granitic gravel, limestone gravel, sandy fields, oak-cedar slopes, live oak savannas. | Sc. OK south to c. TX. |